State of the Planet(TV show/series, 2000)

Name: State of the Planet
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2000
Rating: 3.9

50min per episode | Genre: Documentary

Mini series in 1 season with 3 episodes

Rating: 3.9/5 (with 4 votes)

State of the Planet is a three-part environmental documentary series, made by the BBC Natural History Unit, transmitted in November 2000. It is written and presented by David Attenborough, and produced by Rupert Barrington. It includes interviews with many leading scientists, such as Edward O. Wilson and Jared Diamond. Each of the programmes attempts to find answers to the potential ecological crisis that threatens the Earth. The series was specially commissioned by BBC One for the millennium, and had a budget of around GBP2 million. The BBC drew criticism for scheduling the first episode in competition with the final part of ITV's Inspector Morse; as a consequence, it drew just 4 million viewers, well below the channel's typical share. However, ratings recovered to around 7 million for the second and third programmes. Attenborough fronted this series in between presenting his 1998 ornithological study, The Life of Birds, and providing narration to the award-winning 2001 series The Blue Planet. ()

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About State of the Planet

David Attenborough examines the ecological and conservation crises that threaten the world

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State of the Planet Seasons and Episodes

11/15/2000Miniseries - 3 episodes

#1 | 11/15/2000Is There a Crisis?

The most striking feature of planet Earth is the existence of life, and the most striking feature of life is its richness and variety. From the depths of the oceans to the tops of rainforest canopies, from the African savannahs to the soil under our feet, David Attenborough reveals to us the extent of this living bounty. The latest research show that this variety of life is threatened with destruction by human activities. Will we destroy, as is being predicted, up to 50% of all species on the planet in this present century, and will that tragedy really matter to us, or our children and grandchildren?

#2 | 11/22/2000Why Is There a Crisis?

Extinction is a natural process, and five times in the history of life it has happened on a huge scale. The dinosaurs were wiped out by a massive meteor strike that also killed off much of life on Earth. Human activities are beginning to cause a present day mass-extinction that is happening at unprecedented speed. How can we prevent this from happening? David Attenborough investigates which human activities are the most damaging to the natural world, in an attempt to understand how we can prevent this crisis from unfolding.

#3 | 11/29/2000The Future of Life

How the human species treats the planet over the next one hundred years will determine the future of all life on Earth. We stand to lose up to 50% per cent of species on the planet if we continue using global resources at the current rate. At this crucial point in human history we can still choose whether future generations inhabit a healthy, diverse planet, or a seriously impoverished one. In the final film of this trilogy, David Attenborough looks for hope and solutions.

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Additional Information

Official websites:

www.bbc.co.uk

Production country: United Kingdom (UK)

Made by: British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

Original language: English (EN)

Spoken languages: English (EN)

Translated into 6 languages: Bulgarian (BG), Czech (CS), Greek (EL), English (EN), Hungarian (HU), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)

Status: Ended

First episode released on: 11/15/2000

Last episode released on: 11/29/2000

Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):

"Ο Πλανήτης Γη σε Κατάσταση Κρίσης"

"Ο Πλανήτης μας"

Keywords: environmental conservation, environmental issue, environment, ecology

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